static-content.com.conf

# Every `http` block must contain at least one `server` block which
# defines http and/or https virtual hosts.
server {

  # Have a server listen to port 80, the standard HTTP port
  listen 80;
  
  # `server_name` creates a virtual host and sets its names
  server_name staticcontent.com; 
   
  # Set the location of the access, where nginx writes information
  # about every client request.
  access_log /var/log/nginx/staticcontent.com-access.log main;

  # Tell nginx to use the sendfile() system call, for more efficient
  # retrieval of static files.  The maximum send file chunk is set
  # at 1 Mb. We also enable tcp segment optimization with the 
  # `tcp_nopush` option, 

  sendfile on; 
  sendfile_max_chunk 1M;
  tcp_nopush on;
  
  # Let nginx check for gzipped versions of static files, and if they are
  # found, will send the compressed files instead and indiciate the .gzip
  # character encoding, improving client downloading speeds as compressed
  # assets are loaded instead.

  gzip_static on; 
  
  # `root` specifies the directory which contains these static files.
  root /usr/local/www/staticcontent.com;   
}
  
# vim: ft=nginx